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WWW Is a Job Hunter's Friend |
In my youth when I first set out for a job, I had to do lots of things. The first was to buy a paper and take a look at the classifieds. I'd cut out two or three ads from the paper and look at the requirements. I'd print out a set of resumes to fulfill their requirements, then I would have to have my picture taken as they would need several photos for their files. The follwoing day, I take the bus and travel ten miles to submit my resume. When I get to the first employer, they tell me to go home and wait for a call for an interview schedule. Good thing I brought along the other two sets which meant that I could go to another employer. I got luckier here because they interviewed me right away. After the interview, they say wait for them to call me at home as they will schedule a test for me. Then I go to the third and get no luckier than I was with the first two. So I go home and wait. Interviews and tests are scheduled on three separate days. So I went to all of them. It would have been a wasted opportunity if I hadn't. To cut a long story short, not one of them hired me.
Man, was I frustrated. After all that travelling to and from, the days of waiting and spending money on those requirements, I was back to where I started.
Things nowadays are different. I can store my picture in the computer. When I print out my resume, the picture comes with it. I can email my resume to an employer instead of going there directly. Finally, I don't have to buy a newspaper to look for and clip out classifieds.
The World Wide Web is an heaven sent resource for searching out jobs, processing and sending out applications.
It saves you a lot of time for not having to peer at newspapers or running around to go to wherever you need to go. It saves you money because you can store all our documents and retrieve them at a later time, cutting off the necessity of having to repeat them all over again. It delivers you from stress since applications can be sent online and therefore saves you all the headache from meeting all targets.
To someone like me who used to do it the hard way, the internet is a best friend. |
